Anna Berntson

Contact Information   
Port Orchard, Washington 98366
United States
Email: anna.lynn.berntson@gmail.com
Phone: 360 633 5346
Website: www.annaByoga.com


Schedule  
Samudra Yoga 
1223 McKenzie Ave
Bremerton, Washington 98337

Day Time Additional Notes
Monday 9:15am - 10:30am Level 11
Expasions Yoga 
510 Dekalb St
Port Orchard, Washington 98366

Day Time Additional Notes
Thursday 9:30am - 10:45am Level 11
Saturday 8:30am - 9:45am Level 11
Saturday 10:00am - 11:15am Level 1


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Professional Background  
Anna earned her bachelor’s degree in Film and Television at New York University.



Yoga Background  
Anna Berntson first discovered her love for yoga and meditation when she was 14 years old, attending a SYDA Yoga retreat with her family in the Catskill Mountains of New York. At age 16, she made her first visit to India. There she followed a daily schedule of scriptural study, chanting and meditation, and communal service and hatha yoga. She continued to make regular visits to India and other SYDA Yoga retreat areas until 1997 when she became pregnant with her 1st child, she then settled down to raise a family.

Wanting a connection with a yoga community and a practice she searched for something easy to apply to her daily life. She found John Friend's Anusara Yoga while she was pregnant with her 2nd child. She has been practicing this style ever since.
She has studied with some of the top Anusara teachers: John Friend, Denise Benitez, Elizabeth Rainy, Sienna Sherman, Christy Burnette and SarahJoy Marsh.

She is a 200 hour licensed Anusara-inspired yoga teacher and continues her studies, working towards her 500 hour Anusara teacher’s certification.
She also holds a 100 hour prenatal yoga certification with Collette Crawford at Seattle Holistic Center.


Questions and Answers   

Q: What other hobbies do you have aside from yoga practice?
A: I love to make soap and creams - things for the skin that smell yummy! I like to work in my garden and grow flowers. I love the color and again things that smell yummy

Q: What is the title of a book that you have read recently that you could strongly recommend?
A: "The Life of Pi" written by Yann Martel. A surreal story about a boys journey of survival on a castaway lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan, and a huge Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. It is a mixture of the incredible and the credible which the writer takes you skillfully between without knowing you have crossed the line or if there is a line. This story takes place somewhere on the Pacific Ocean.

Q: What is one of your all-time favorite movies?
A: I love old musicals from the 50's like "Singin in the Rain" with Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Conner. My favorite scene besides singing in the rain is the movie set scene with Donald doing amazing stunts and physical comedy. I also love the physical comedy of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. I am also a fan of the more contemporary Dick Van Dyke like "Mary Poppin's" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"

Q: What is one place that you would like to visit in the world? Why?
A: I would go back to India. The culture and history has so many layers to it. It is a place I could wonder for a very long time. It for me is my second birth place.

Q: What's your favorite color?
A: Yellow because it makes me happy.

Q: What is one of the funniest incidents that occurred in one of your yoga classes?
A: I had just started teaching yoga. I had volunteered to teach classes at at Seattle center for the blind, where people going blind or had recent accidents that made them blind learn how to adapted to their disability. I had to give very clear verbal instructions, obviously, because their was no visual demonstrations. I was leading them through a Surya Namaskar, when we came to the end standing in Tadasana. I said, "On an exhale bring our palms together in front of your heart", I looked around and half the class had their palms in prayer position in front of their heart - on the left side of the chest. They were following my direction to the point. Their was such sweetness and innocents to their pose.